Terms of Endearment

Lets assemble a set of Terms of Endearment. These are very useful phrases to learn and ones that we can use on our family and close friends. They might also be perfect captions to use in the Photo Caption thread!

This saying became very popular when it was used in the movie - Million Dollar Baby. Fight trainer Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) gives this name to his aspiring young fighter Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank) and puts "Mo Chuisle" (my darling) on her robe. This is an excellent movie and is worth seeing if you already haven't.

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Thanks, Robert. I'll check it out right away. (I was asking myself yesterday what to say when talking to someone close)
Funny thing: this last Monday a classmate of mine told me that, when watching that movie with his parents, he said: "Hey, my friend, Rodrigo, speaks that language!"
haha.. The knowledge I absorb here represents a lot to me...
Hey, Robert, 2 coincidences with just one thread! Planning to play on the lottery?

Sónia, Possesive pronouns are not usually used in the vocative tense. Instead we would use the vocative particle (a) so, instead of saying mo ghrá, we would just say a ghrá.
Also the vocative particle causes lenition (eg. grá, a ghrá). So when we are speaking directly to a person, like when you say to your husband (or boyfriend) "my dear" you would phrase it a stór and not mo stór. OK, so here's my suggestions for your examples listed above: